"I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius."

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Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.94, The Floating Press

Mary MacLane

#Twelve Quotes #Genius Quotes

“I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.”
“His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.”

Source : William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93
“Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.”
“We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.”

Source : 1925 Polyglots, ch.14.
“I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.”
“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.”
“The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.”
“When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.”

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